Perhaps people are not particularly educated in some subjects they are interested in, so they ask questions.

[QUOTE=legendarymudkip;382505]Perhaps people are not particularly educated in some subjects they are interested in, so they ask questions.[/QUOTE]It was a good enough question. It made me think about what I know and don't know. Also, I was not confident enough to answer directly. So to me, it was not a waste of time as I lurked to see what others would say.

[url]http://www.sfgate.com/sports/ostler/article/NFL-shouldn-t-have-needed-video-to-do-the-right-5742772.php[/url]

Record 1-day rainfall in Arizona
 

[url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/heavy-rain-snarls-morning-commute-in-phoenix-area/2014/09/08/15e1827a-3758-11e4-a023-1d61f7f31a05_story.html[/url]

From famine to feast ... wonder if any significant amounts of that made it into parched reservoirs?

Here in CA, SoCal got some of that, but in NoCal where I live we are heading towards our 200th straight day sans significant (>= 0.1") rainfall.

[QUOTE=LaurV;382063]This is how I found out that my company blocks that site, dunno why. :surprised[/QUOTE]


Just found out that my work blocks the Guardian. Or least the Book reviews section. (security risk? like existential thought?)

[QUOTE=chappy;382552]Just found out that my work blocks the Guardian. Or least the Book reviews section. (security risk? like existential thought?)[/QUOTE]

Well, as has been said recently hereabouts, liberal in the States is moderately conservative over there. By extension, the Guardian, though centrist in UK terms, might be too flaming liberal for corporate "guardians" over here.

That's how rain always falls in the deserts. The problem is that the landscape hasn't been maintained to capture the rainfall through features such as [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swale_(landform)]swales[/url].

[url]https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_world_s_deserts_and_reverse_climate_change[/url]

In some places people are starting to clue in and are beginning to pulse cattle through the landscape, and the fertility is returning to those areas. It'll take many decades to heal the deserts of the south-western US, but it can be done using sustainable practices.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;382541][url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/heavy-rain-snarls-morning-commute-in-phoenix-area/2014/09/08/15e1827a-3758-11e4-a023-1d61f7f31a05_story.html[/url]

From famine to feast ... wonder if any significant amounts of that made it into parched reservoirs?

Here in CA, SoCal got some of that, but in NoCal where I live we are heading towards our 200th straight day sans significant (>= 0.1") rainfall.[/QUOTE]

this got me thinking of

[URL="http://news.yahoo.com/texas-mad-mexico-wont-share-rio-grandes-water-191339569.html?bcmt=comments-postbox"]Texas Is Mad Mexico Won't Share the Rio Grande's Water[/URL]

[QUOTE]What's worse, the race for water in the region doesn't show any signs of stopping. The American Meteorological Society predicts that the likelihood of a decade-long drought impacting the southwestern United States this century is at over 90 percent. [/QUOTE]


I'll admit I made stupid comment :

[QUOTE] guess they could flood a square mile 9 chain deep or 49.5 fathom deep I guess.[/QUOTE] since that the amount of water owed by the agreement

[QUOTE]Since 1945, The United States and Mexico have abided by a water utilization treaty,[/QUOTE]

Note that the balance of power was tilted far more in favor of the US when this treaty was signed. Also, take into account that some of the largest users of irrigation water in the Rio Grande Valley are sugar cane growers. They not only get a lion's share of the water, but their crop is heavily subsidized, in spite of a glut of sugar worldwide.

In general, it is a much more complicated situation when everybody is experiencing drought.

[url]http://www.texasobserver.org/on-the-border-a-struggle-over-water/[/url]

The Texas Observer is the long-time progressive magazine in the state.

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"Sons of Confederacy" ... the US Civil War one or the "of Dunces" one?